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GANshare: Creating and Curating Art with AI for Fun and Profit

Using the CLIP and VQGAN models to generate ChromaScapes, high-quality digital paintings for sale as NFTs on OpenSea

Robert A. Gonsalves
Towards Data Science
15 min readOct 6, 2021

Sample of ChromaScapes Created by GANshare One, Image by Author

I first wrote about using Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) to create visual art in August of 2020. For that project, MachineRay, I trained NVidia’s StyleGAN2 [1] with abstract paintings in the public domain to create new works. Since then, I have written a few more articles on using GANs to produce fine art. From the feedback I received, I could tell that some readers wanted to learn how to generate digital art for sale as Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs) in a burgeoning new market.

If you are not familiar with cryptocurrency and NFTs, here’s a quick analogy.

Cryptocurrency is to precious metal as NFTs are to precious gems.

Every ounce of pure gold is valued the same but every diamond is unique and thus valued differently.

For this project, I took the plunge into the world of NFTs. Not only am I creating and selling newly created digital art as NFTs, but I am also selling “shares” of a trained GAN to allow other artists to produce their own digital art for sale as NFTs. I call this concept a “GANshare,”…

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Robert A. Gonsalves
Robert A. Gonsalves

Written by Robert A. Gonsalves

Robert A. Gonsalves is an artist, inventor, and engineer who writes about the creative uses of AI. Ask questions https://chat.openai.com/g/g-b1kqByRsT-robgonbot

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I love this and I am going to share this, you're a genius and creative👏👏👏

Hi Rob, regarding your recommendation of Polygon. I see there is this option available for the seller:
Another benefit to Polygon is that you can now create a semi-fungible item for free. By increasing the Supply of your NFT, you can increase the…

Hi Robert, once again great article.
RE CLIP NLP, i notice that you format the prompts to be human readable by including prepositions and articles, e.g "Geometric Painting of a Snail in Opal Pink". Just wondering if some or all of those preps and…